STATUTES PERMITTING APPOINTMENTS Collectors of * * internal reve shals may ap deputies with civil-service act and rules. DEPUTY COLLECTORS AND DEPUTY MARSHALS. * That hereafter any deputy collector of internal nue and mar- revenue or deputy marshal who may be required by law point bonded or by authority or direction of the collector of internal out regard to revenue or the United States marshal to execute a bond to the collector of internal revenue or United States marshal to secure faithful performance of official duty may be appointed by the said collector or marshal, who may require such bond without regard to the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States," approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and amendments thereto, or any rule or regulation made of in pursuance thereof, and the officer requiring said bond shall have power to revoke the appointment of any subordinate officer or employee and appoint his successor at his discretion without regard to the act, amendments, rules, or regulations aforesaid. (38 Stat., 208, act of Oct. 22, 1913.) Control appointing offi cer. of employees. FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD. SEC. 11. The Federal Reserve Board shall be authorized and empowered: Employment (1) To employ such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, or other employees as may be deemed necessary to conduct the business of the board. All salaries and fees shall be fixed in advance by said board and shall be paid in the same manner as the salaries of the members of said board. All such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, and other employees shall be appointed without regard to the provisions of the act of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three (volume twenty-two, United States Statutes at Large, page four hundred and three), and amendments thereto, or any rule or regulation made in pursuance thereof: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the President from placing said employees in the classified service. (38 Stat., 262, act of Dec. 23, 1913. COMMERCIAL ATTACHÉS. ed by Secretary Duties. For commercial attachés, to be appointed by the To be appoint. Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held of Commerce. under his direction to determine their competency, and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and for one clerk to each of said commercial attachés to be paid a salary not to exceed $1,500 each; and for necessary traveling and subsistence expenses, rent, purchase of reports, travel to and from the United States, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attachés shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $100,000. (38 Stat., 500, act of July 16, 1914.) FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Each commissioner shall receive a salary of $10,000 a year, payable in the same manner as the salaries of the judges of the courts of the United States. The commission shall appoint a secretary, who shall receive a salary of $5,000 a year, payable in like manner, and it shall have authority to employ and fix the compensation Authority to of such attorneys, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees as it may from time to time find necessary for the proper performance of its duties and as may be from time to time appropriated for by Congress. appoint. from civil-serv rules. and With the exception of the secretary, a clerk to each, Exceptions commissioner, the attorneys, and such special experts ice act and examiners as the commission may from time to time find necessary for the conduct of its work, all employees of the commission shall be a part of the classified civil Classified emservice, and shall enter the service under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the commission and by the Civil Service Commission. (88 Stat., 718, act of Sept. 26, 1914.) ployees. Coast Guard, Revenue, and Services, to LIFE-SAVING SERVICE INCLUDED IN THE COAST GUARD. That there shall be established in lieu of the existing Life-Saving Revenue-Cutter Service and the Life-Saving Service, to compose. be composed of those two existing organizations, with the existing offices and positions and the incumbent officers and men of those two services, the Coast Guard, which shall constitute a part of the military forces of the United States and which shall operate under the Treasury Department in time of peace and operate as a part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy, in time of war or when the President shall so direct. (38 Stat., 800, act of Jan. 28, 1915.) constitute a Army. VETERINARY CORPS OF THE ARMY MADE A PART OF THE Appointment, SEC. 16. VETERINARIANS: The President is hereby aupart of the thorized, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint veterinarians and assistant veterinarians in the Army, not to exceed, including veterinarians now in the service, two such officers for each regiment of Cavalry, one for every three batteries of Field Artillery, one for each mounted battalion of Engineers, seventeen as inspectors of horses and mules and as veterinarians in the Quartermaster Corps, and seven as inspectors of meats for the Quartermaster Corps; and said veterinarians and assistant veterinarians shall be citizens of the United States and shall constitute the Veterinary Corps and shall be a part of the Medical Department of the Army. (39 Stat., 176, act of June 3, 1916.) Appoint ments. FEDERAL FARM-LOAN BOARD. * SEC. 3. * The Federal Farm Loan Board shall be authorized and empowered to employ such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, laborers, and other employees as it may deem necessary to conduct the business of said board. All salaries and fees authorized in this section and not otherwise provided for shall be fixed in advance by said board and shall be paid in the same manner as the salaries of the Federal Farm Loan Board. All such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, laborers, and other employees and all registrars, examiners, and appraisers shall be appointed without regard to the provisions of the act of January 16, 1883 (vol. 22, U. S. Stats., L., p. 403), and amendments thereto, or any rule or regulation made in pursuance thereof: Provided, That nothing herein shall prevent the President from placing said employees in the classified service. (39 Stat., 361, act of July 17, 1916.) HEADQUARTERS CLERKS, QUARTERMASTER CORPS, INCLUDED pro part of the Hereafter headquarters clerks shall be known as Army Allowances, a field clerks and shall receive pay at the rates herein Army. vided, and after twelve years of service, at least three years of which shall have been on detached duty away from permanent station or on duty beyond the continental limits of the United States or both, shall receive the same allowances, except retirement, as heretofore allowed by law to pay clerks, Quartermaster Corps, and shall be subject to the Rules and Articles of War. (39 Stat., 625, act of Aug. 29, 1916.) The Attorney General rendered an opinion June 21, 1917, in which it is held that Army field clerks may, under the provision quoted above, be appointed by the Adjutant General without respect to the rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission, and that from the date of their appointment they are solely within the control of the rules and Articles of War and not subject to the rules and regulations of the Civil Service Commission. SHIPPING BOARD. SEC. 4. That each member of the board shall receive a salary of $7,500 per annum. The board shall appoint a secretary, at a salary of $5,000 per annum, and employ and fix the compensation of such attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees as it may find necessary for the proper performance of its duties, and as may be appropriated for by the Congress. The President, upon the request of the board, may authorize the detail of officers of the military, naval, or other services of the United States for such duties as the board may deem necessary in connection with its business. Authority to appoint. from civil-serv rules. With the exception of the secretary, a clerk to each, Exceptions commissioner, the attorneys, naval architects, and such ice act and special experts and examiners as the board may from time to time find necessary to employ for the conduct of its work, all employees of the board shall be appointed from lists of eligibles to be supplied by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance with the civil-service law. (39 Stat., 729, act of Sept. 7, 1916.) TARIFF COMMISSION. appoint. Authority to SEC. 701. That each commissioner shall receive a salary of $7,500 per year, payable monthly. The commission shall appoint a secretary, who shall receive a salary of $5,000 per year, payable in like manner, and it shall have authority to employ and fix the compensations of such special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees as the commission may from time to time find necessary for the proper performance of its duties. Exceptions from civil-serv rules. With the exception of the secretary, a clerk to each ice act and commissioner, and such special experts as the commission may from time to time find necessary for the conduct of its work, all employees of the commission shall be appointed from lists of eligibles to be supplied by the Civil Service Commission and in accordance with the civil-service law. (39 Stat., 795, act of Sept. 8, 1916.) IMMIGRATION SERVICE. SEC. 24. That immigrant inspectors and other immigration officers, clerks, and employees shall hereafter be appointed and their compensation fixed and raised or decreased from time to time by the Secretary of Labor, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner General of Immigration and in accordance with the provisions of the civil-service act of January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three: Provided, That said Secretary, in the enforcement of that portion of this act which excludes contract laborers and induced and assisted immigrants, may employ, for such purpose and for detail upon additional service under this act when not so engaged, without reference to the provisions of the said civil-service act or to the various acts relative to the compilation of the Official Register, such persons as he may deem advisable, and from time to time fix, raise, or decrease their compensation. Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to alter the mode of appointing commissioners of immigration at the several ports of the United States as provided by the sundry civil appropriation act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or the official status of such commissioners heretofore appointed. (39 Stat., 893, act of Feb. 5, 1917.) * * * |